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Hurricanes and typhoons occur in tropical areas, but can move into extratropical areas as well.

There are different types of cyclone, however. Tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and tropical depressions) form in tropical regions but extratropical and polar lows are cyclones as well.

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What are hurricanes called in other parts of the world?

In the Pacific they are called typhoons. Generically, hurricanes and typhoons are both tropical cyclones. A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal, synoptic scale, low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation.


What are severe storms that form over tropical oceans?

Severe storms that form over tropical oceans are known as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on the region where they occur. These storms are characterized by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and can cause significant damage to coastal areas.


Which hurricanes occur in the pacific ocean?

In the Pacific Ocean, hurricanes are referred to as typhoons in the western North Pacific and cyclones in the eastern North Pacific. Typhoons typically affect countries like Japan, China, and the Philippines, while cyclones impact areas such as Mexico and the western coast of the United States.


What is a typoon?

A typhoon is a large, powerful tropical storm that forms over warm ocean waters. They are characterized by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and storm surges that can cause significant damage and destruction to coastal areas. Typhoons are also known as cyclones or hurricanes, depending on their location.


What do hurricanes tornadoes and typhoons all have in common?

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and typhoons are all types of powerful tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters. They all involve strong winds and heavy rainfall, and can cause devastating damage to the areas they impact.

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How are Typhoons and tropical cyclones different?

Cyclones occur in a variety of areas around the world. "Cyclone" is the generic term for cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes. Cyclones develop in the warm seas near the equator, but do not cross the equator. Those in the southern hemisphere are usually known as cyclones, but cyclones in the China Sea region are often called typhoons, whilst those in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean are known as hurricanes.


What are hurricanes called in other parts of the world?

In the Pacific they are called typhoons. Generically, hurricanes and typhoons are both tropical cyclones. A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal, synoptic scale, low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation.


What are severe storms that form over tropical oceans?

Severe storms that form over tropical oceans are known as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on the region where they occur. These storms are characterized by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and can cause significant damage to coastal areas.


Why do hurricanes only occur in the US?

Hurricane is what they are called if they form in the Atlantic Ocean. They are called typhoons if they form in some areas of the Pacific and cyclones in yet other places. All these storms are the same and the generic name for them is "tropical cyclones."


Are there any benefits to hurricanes or tropical storms?

Yes. Tropical cyclones (the generic term hurricanes, tropical storms, typhoons etc) produce large amounts of rain. This can bring relief to drought-stricken areas. The rain can also clear pollutants out of the air. Tropical cyclones are also one of several systems that bring heat from the tropics to the middle and sometimes higher latitudes. This helps keep the tropics from getting to hot and temperate areas from getting too cold.


Powerful rotating storms in the western Pacific Ocean?

These are called typhoons, which are powerful tropical cyclones that form in the western Pacific Ocean. Typhoons are characterized by strong winds, heavy rain, and can cause significant damage to coastal areas they make landfall on. They are equivalent to hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific regions.


How and where do typhoons start?

Typhoons usually start when a storm occurs mainly in areas close to the ocean (borders). They start off as tropical thunderstorms. Its basically just like hurricanes and cyclones. Its just that the place where they start that gives it its name. For example, they call that storm a typhoon in Japan.


What are hurricanes and where do they form?

Hurricanes are powerful swirling storms found in tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean (called tropical cyclones in Asia or typhoons in Oceania ) . Hurricanes usually begin over tropical parts of the world's oceans where the temperature is more than 27 degree Celsius.


What are cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean?

Hurricanes and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon tropical cyclones and In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a typhoon.


What countries call cyclones hurricanes?

In the Atlantic and eastern Pacific regions, cyclones are called hurricanes in the United States and some areas of the Caribbean. In the western Pacific and southeastern Indian Ocean, cyclones are typically referred to as typhoons, while in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean they are known as cyclones.


Which hurricanes occur in the pacific ocean?

In the Pacific Ocean, hurricanes are referred to as typhoons in the western North Pacific and cyclones in the eastern North Pacific. Typhoons typically affect countries like Japan, China, and the Philippines, while cyclones impact areas such as Mexico and the western coast of the United States.


Hazards in plateau areas of India?

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